Ernest Bour
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Ernest Bour (20 April 1913 - 20 June 2001) was a noted conductor. Born in Thionville, Moselle (in north-eastern Lorraine, then part of Germany), Bour studied at both the University and the Conservatoire of Strasbourg. His conducting teachers included Fritz Münch and Hermann Scherchen. Perhaps his most heard recording is of Ligeti's Atmospheres with the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra aka Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden heard on the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey. After serving as chorus master for the radio choruses of Geneva and Strasbourg, he was appointed conductor of the Orchestre de Mulhouse in 1941. In 1950, he became conductor of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1955 of the Strasbourg Opera House, where he had conducted the premiere of Delannoy's Puck in 1949. He was principal conductor of the SWF Symphony Orchestra in Baden-Baden from 1964 to 1979. He conducted the European premiere of Berio's Sinfonia during the 1969 Donaueschingen Festival by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1976 until 1987, he was permanent guest conductor of The Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra located in the VARA radio headquarters in Hilversum.
Bour's repertoire was marked by a concentration on contemporary music. World premières he presided over included works by Bussotti, Ferneyhough, Górecki, Ligeti, Rihm, Stockhausen and Xenakis, and he gave the French premières of Hindemith's Symphony Mathis der Maler and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and the European premiere of Susman's Trailing Vortices. His recordings ranged from music of François Couperin to André Jolivet.
Bour died in Strasbourg, aged 88.
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- Tableaux d'une exposition: La grande porte de Kiev
- Tableaux d'une exposition: La Cabane sur pattes de poule
- Tableaux d'une exposition: Dans les catacombes
- Le Tombeau de Couperin: Menuet
- Le Tombeau de Couperin: Forlane
- Le Tombeau de Couperin: Prélude
- Galántai táncok (Dances of Galánta): Les Danses de Galanta
- Le Tombeau de Couperin: Rigaudon
- 5-String Viola Concerto: Adagio religioso - Allegro vivace
- Violin Concerto in D: 3. Aria II featuring Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Violin Concerto in D: 4. Capriccio featuring Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Tableaux d'une exposition: Tuileries
- Tableaux d'une exposition: Le vieux château
- "Pictures at an Exhibition": Ballet des poussins dans leur coque
- Violin Concerto in D: 1. Toccata featuring Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Tableaux d'une exposition: Bydlo
- Tableaux d'une exposition: Le Marché de Limoges
- Violin Concerto in D: 2. Aria I featuring Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Tableaux d'une exposition: Samuel Goldenberg et Schmuyle
- L'enfant et les sortilèges, M. 71, Tableau II: "Ah ! Quelle joie de te retrouver, jardin !" (L'Enfant, Un arbre, Les Arbres)
- L'enfant et les sortilèges, M. 71, Tableau II: Danse des libellules. "Où es-tu ? Je te cherche" (La Libellule, Le Rossignol, L'Enfant, Les Rainettes)
- The Miraculous Mandarin: Le Mandarin Merveilleux, pantomime d'après un conte chinois
- L'enfant et les sortilèges, M. 71, Tableau II: Ronde des chauves-souris. "Rends-la moi ! Tsk, tsk !" (La Chauve-Souris, L'Enfant)
- Piano Concerto N° 2: Adagio - Presto - Adagio
